Theodoros Zanos, PhD

Dr. Theodoros (Theo) Zanos, PhD is a Professor & AVP, and the head of the Division of Health AI at Northwell Health and the Neural and Data Science Lab at the Institute of Health System Science and Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine, at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and the Zucker School of Medicine, Hofstra Northwell. He received his Engineering diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, his MSc and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California and postdoctoral training at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill. His current research focuses on developing and applying AI/machine learning methods on multimodal healthcare, neural and physiological data to enable early diagnosis, disease severity assessment, and personalization and adaptability of therapies. He has been awarded multiple federal and industry grants, totaling >$15M of external funding from NIH, CDC and other federal and industry sources, and published >70 peer-reviewed papers, in journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Machine Intelligence, PNAS, JAMA, npj Digital Medicine, Neuron (Cell Press) and others. He has been awarded the Northwell Excellence in Research Award three times, inducted to the National Academy of Inventors as a senior member, received the Modern Healthcare 2026 Innovator award, finalist in Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas in AI, twice finalist in Northwell’s Innovation Challenge, and received the Jean Timmins Award and the Center of Excellence in Commercialization and Research Award.